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...haste to dodge Tokyo’s mistakes, Obama and his advisers are making their own. Thinking government must spend something—anything—to boost the economy, Democrats scraped the pork barrel for ideas: $650 million for digital TV converter box coupons, $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities, $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint...
...Nearby is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a modern, multi-media complex that houses one of the best collections of Lincoln materials in the world. As Illinois State Historian Thomas Schwartz explained to me recently, Springfield had the good fortune to have a Lincoln buff serving as governor during the Great Depression. He budgeted for acquisitions at a time when prices were low. "We were able to collect material at a time when there was not much interest and not much money...
...library is a mecca for Lincoln scholars, the museum, opened in 2005, is pitched to appeal to ordinary visitors. Cannons boom at appropriate moments. Life-size figures of the Lincoln family stand poised in the light-filled central space. The late Tim Russert narrates a news report on the 1860 campaign, complete with television ads for Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell...
...ICA’s “OBEY” brochure) while an undergraduate at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 90s. His work was also brought onto the Harvard campus two years ago by Susan Dackerman, curator of prints at the Fogg Art Museum, in conjunction with the show “Dissent!,” which focused on the use of printing to express protest and subversive messages. Though none of Fairey’s works appeared within the museum’s galleries, it was part of advertising efforts on behalf...
...life and legacy for the project; among the exhibit’s offerings include a children’s book on the H.M.S. Beagle, a Japanese translation of “On the Origin of Species,” and finch and mockingbird specimens from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. “The purpose of the class and the exhibit is to see how we take this mountain of scholarship about Darwin—the Darwin industry—and show how he, his life and times, and his contributions of science have been understood over the last...